Archive - Blood in the Machine

The great and justified rage over using AI to automate the arts

Bosses are using AI to cut corners and kill jobs in gaming, and gamers, workers, and fans are outraged. The reason why is simple.

Jul 25 •

Every startup in JD Vance's VC fund, ranked from least to most hillbilly elegiac

What can we learn about Donald Trump's VP pick from his VC fund's investment portfolio?

Jul 17 •

AI is not "democratizing creativity." It's doing the opposite

Why Silicon Valley's favorite AI buzz phrase is so misleading and insulting

Jul 11 •

On the Supreme Court rulings, the great debate disaster, and how big tech stands to profit from it all

It Can Happen Here (Silicon Valley edition)

Jul 3 •

June 2024

The most powerful takedowns of generative AI, from those who know its impacts best

It's knives out for AI: Engineers, artists, educators and other workers are raising the alarm more loudly than ever before. Here are 8 of their…

Jun 28 •

AI can't fix what automation already broke

Generative AI is the latest in a long line of technologies that promise innovation and fixes but grind away at public life

Jun 17 •

Understanding the real threat generative AI poses to our jobs

There will be no robot jobs apocalypse, but there's still plenty to worry about. How *will* generative AI impact our jobs?

Jun 3 •

May 2024

Why is Sam Altman so obsessed with 'Her'? An investigation

It's a powerful vision of AI as an engine of entitlement, for one thing

May 21 •

For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point

We mock Musk, Altman and Zuck for using bleak sci-fi references to market products — but these 'useful dystopias' might just be the point

May 14 •

On the AI-abetted death of VICE and Apple’s handy new visual metaphor for the campaign to squeeze human works into commoditized output paste

May 10 •

April 2024

AI really is smoke and mirrors

Just not in *exactly* the way you might think.

Apr 22 •

March 2024

The tide is turning against OpenAI

Opposition from workers and creators is beginning to hit the infamous generative AI company hard.

Mar 15 •

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